Artistic Director Resume Example

Freelance creative event organizer boasting a seven-year career in experiential event creation and theatrical shows. Holds incredible creativity and visualization skills with the ability to create ideas in accordance with requirements. Capable of successfully hiring, training and motivating 40 artists across mediums and developing budget details and timelines.

• Sokoloff Arts Creative Fellowship, NYC 2019
• Guild Hall Artist in Residence, East Hamptons 2019
• Governors Island Artist in Residence, NYC 2015-2019
• Casa de Europa Mexico, San Miguel, Mexico, October 2018

Cynthia Ross
Goddard College Faculty, MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts
Cynthia.Ross@goddard.edu
802.476.7103
Robin Sokoloff
Founder & CEO of Town Stages: A new women-led cultural arts space, event venue, and cocktail bar in Tribeca
robin@townstages.com
212.634.7690
Tyisha Berger
Manager of Barboncino, current part-time serving job
Tybarboncino@gmail.com
646.421.7182

Immersive Wedding (private hire), September 2019

Creative Director custom created an immersive event for a wedding including the hiring of performers, creatively staying within budget and crafting flow of events and evening.

RISING, April 2019

Creative Director and Producer for an evening of coffins and Drag Queens in celebration of Exquisite Corpse Company's annual kick-off. Event catered to 150 guests.

Tank Theater Gala, May 2018

Creative Director for the Tank Theater's annual Gala, creating overall look/theme and working within a limited budget to create a multi-room experiential flow. Organized volunteer staff of 40, maintained and stayed on budget.

Nineteenth Amendment Fashion Week Event, September 2017

Special Event Lead for one-night-only after hours on Governors Island fashion week off shoot event. Worked with the CEO and designers to facilitate needs and coordinate event publicity, ticket sales, and design. Hiring talent and beer sponsorships.

BlackBox Art Events, 2010 -2015

Biannual BlackBox art events give back to Exquisite Corpse Company's(ECC) artistic community by featuring five artists of different mediums. Events took place in found wear house spaces. Lead and coordinated the events working with volunteer staff of 20, coordinated and chose artists to participate, oversaw marketing and space manager relationships. Profits from the event went directly to featured artists with ECC taking a small producer's fee. Approximately 250 millennials attend each event.

Parker Red Catering -IPG Media Holiday Party, December 2014

Lead coordinator to the Event Coordinator for IPG Media holiday party at The Tunnel in NYC, an event with over 1,500 attendees and staff of over 50. Assisted with pre-event planning: price comparison shopping, mood boards, creative design, and day to day emails and organization. The Event Lead and managed staff of over 50.

• Corseted Community - Collaborative international installation on the role of gender in the work of women identifying artists in US and Mexico, CEART, MX '18 and Casa Europa, MX '18
• The Things We Bury - Mixed media piece addressing issues of the corrosive nature of secrets, Memory House, Governors Island, NY, '18
• As Big As You Remember It - Miniatures on plate exploring how memory changes, Memory House, Governors Island, NY, '18
• Memory House - Curated and created work for an installation house featuring work of six women artists, Governor's Island, NY, ‘18
• This is a Distraction Gallery - Curated art gallery based on the theme of distraction in current 24 hour news cycle, nine artists, RAW Space, NY '18
• Goddard College Student Art Show - Curated and created work for Goddard College Student Art show, Port Townsend, WA, '17-'18

Water, Water, Everywhere...- Created, Directed and Produced immersive collaboration exploring themes of home, memory and our global water crisis, Governor's Island, NY, ‘19

In Water, Water, Everywhere... you are invited into the lives of people from the past, present, and future who are all coping with the slippery nature of memory and water. Four overlapping storylines unfold in this multidisciplinary experiential performance inspired by the history of Governors Island and set in a house that was once a home. Water, Water, Everywhere... opens September 21 to coincide with the UN's Climate Action Summit on September 23. It addresses the history and future of water use on the island and the global water crisis. Part time-bending magic realism, part interactive family drama, this play penned collaboratively by four playwrights features three distinct audience tracks and takes visitors on a whirlwind tour of magic, memory, and the global water crisis.

A Ribbon About A Bomb - Created, Directed and Produced immersive collaboration exploring female surrealism, Governor's Island, NY, ‘17

Originally produced August and September 2017 in an abandoned house on Governors Island, A Ribbon About A Bomb explores issues of duality within what it means to be a woman artist as embodied through three female surrealist artists: Leonora Carrington, Remedios Varo, and of course iconic Frida Kahlo. Two different performances, occurring simultaneously (wedding or funeral) led audiences through the nine rooms of the house where installation art and performance are woven together. Written by 10 playwrights the story is crafted together like the company's namesake, an exquisite corpse, helmed by creator and director Tess Howsam. The writers were only given a month and a half to develop the work, each writing moments or scenes that were then interwoven. Original score was added using lyrics from varying playwrights set to music by KG Garlington. The entire production from build to performance occurred in one month.The costume design added a collaboration with female fashion house Nineteenth Amendment and blended costume and female designed pieces within the show adding a contemporary spin to the world.

The Enchanted Realm of Rene Magritte - Created, Directed and Produced immersive collaboration performed on Governor's Island, NY, ‘16

Surrealist artist Rene Magritte and his three-panel mural: The Enchanted Realm, was the inspiration for this sold-out hit show, playing a two-month run on Governors Island, NY. As the audience toured Magritte's family home, his life, loves, and art unfold. I worked with eight playwrights and created site-specific surreal art installations in eight rooms of the two-story abandoned house.

All New Women: Untitled #3 - Directed this responsive play for portrait show Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, CO, ‘16

Performed in the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center El Pomar Gallery where three artists defended their place in the canon. The ECC partnered with the curator of the All New Women show which featured work by John Singer Sargent, Cindy Sherman,and Lyle Ashton Harris. A living portrait was painted with strokes of history, culture, race, gender, and identity.

Secession 2015 and Secession 2015 Faux/Real Festival -Created, Directed and Produced immersive collaboration based on the Vienna Secession, Governor's Island, NY, ‘15 and Created, Directed and Produced touring performance Secession 2015, The Pearl, New Orleans, LA. ‘15

20 visual artists created original work inspired by artists of the Vienna Secession while 7 playwrights, 4 directors, and 7 actors brought the gallery to life in Secession 2015. A living gallery set in a dilapidated Victorian house on New York City's Governor's Island; audiences wandered through art-filled rooms and explored the concepts of woman as an artist's muse vs. woman as an artist.

Secession 2015 toured to New Orleans as a part of the Faux/Real Festival. The play received a warm reception as we reached out to a community of New Orleans artists. I directed and also performed the roles of Wally, Muse, and Marietta.

WareART - Created, Directed, and Produced three-weekend art festival with fashion/dance/runway show, Galapagos Event Center, DUMBO plus four original plays performed at HERE Arts Center, NY 2014

Three weekend-long festival challenged visual and performance artists to create wearable art pieces using the theme: SubTerra. The runway designs then inspired four playwrights to create original one-act plays. The WareART fashion/dance extravaganza took place over an indoor lake at Galapagos Art Space, DUMBO. The plays were produced at HERE Arts Center, NYC. In addition to directing the “one night only” fashion/dance performance, I also performed the physical character role of Alecto in ANON at HERE Arts Center.

The Forgotten World of Egon Schiele - Wrote and Performed in original ten-minute play, (Un)Fair Festival, NY, 2014

This ten-minute play written for the (Un)Fair Festival in New York City was inspired by Egon Schiele's painting “Death and the Maiden.” In the final ten minutes of Schiele's life, his wife and lover come to life to help him find closure. I performed the role of the androgynous Egon Schiele caught in his poetically tragic world. It was performed inside the (Un)Fair Gallery amongst an installation of antique frames.

ODD.A.SEE -Created, Directed and Produced immersive retelling of Homer's Odyssey, Arts@Renaissance, Williamsburg, NY 2013

ODD.A.SEE was performed in the basement of a repurposed hospital space: Arts@Renaissance, Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Five playwrights took the audience on an immersive journey, from room to room, through the world of Homer's Odyssey. It examined what it means to come home and how war affects us all. Eight visual artists crafted installation art pieces/sets. Three bands rotated as the unruly suitors and created original scores. My first immersive project, this was thrilling and daunting. An eerie basement was transformed into the bizarre worlds of Odysseus' journey.